An epic catalogue is a long, detailed list of objects, places or people that is a characteristic of epic poetry.
Examples
- In the Iliad:[1]
- Catalogue of Ships, the most famous epic catalogue
- Trojan Battle Order
- In the Odyssey, the catalogue of women in Hades in Book XI.
- In the Argonautica, the catalogue of heroes in Book I.
- In the Aeneid, the list of enemies the Trojans find in Etruria in Book VII. Also, the list of ships in Book X.[2]
- In Ovid's Metamorphoses, the catalogue of Actaeon's dogs (Book I) and of trees (Book X).
- In the Völuspá, the "Dvergatal" or catalogue of dwarfs.
- In The Faerie Queene, the list of trees I.i.8-9 and the list of rivers IV.xii.
- In Paradise Lost, the list of demons in Book I.[3]
References
- ^ Gaertner, Jan Felix (2001). "The Homeric Catalogues and Their Function in Epic Narrative". Hermes. 129 (3): 298–305. JSTOR 4477439
- ^ Christine Perkell (ed.) (1999). Reading Vergil's Aeneid: An Interpretative Guide. Vol. 23. Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture. University of Oklahoma Press. pp. 190–194. ISBN 9780806131399. Archived from the original on 2017-05-10. Retrieved 2013-05-17.
- ^ Quint, David (Spring 2007). "Milton's Book of Numbers: Book 1 of Paradise Lost and Its Catalogue". International Journal of the Classical Tradition. 13 (4): 528–549. doi:10.1007/bf02923024. JSTOR 30222176. S2CID 161875103